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In the way that a surgeon's scalpel is divisive when it removes the cancer from the body. In the way that the Allied armies in World War II were divisive in killing nazi scum.

Time for this again?

There is no uniting with people who are trying to overturn democracy.

If someone is getting worked up it says a lot about them and not Biden.

there are a few choices: 1) ignore MAGAs 2) work with them 3) stop them if you think MAGAs are going away on their own if you ignore them, and that we will return to a "normal" GOP, that merely mocks the black president as a foreigner and a Muslim, well you are certainly entitled to that magical thinking if you think you can work with people who say the election was stolen by Hugo Chavez working with the Italians and Comet Ping Pong is a child sex ring, well you are certainly entitled to that magical thinking to me, you have to keep trying to stop these fascists. might not work. message might by weaponized against the Dems. plenty of people love the perversion and plenty more do not care and never will. i'd rather go down fighting, rather than wishing.

Come out swinging Joe, that's what people want. We've had enough of these assholes...............go on the offensive and don't fucking stop. As Baldwin says in Glengarry, Glen Ross............"Get MAD, you sons-a-bitches".

So I would guess that with the call ups of Carpenter, Baddoo and now Kreidler, that Daz Cameron's time in the Tiger organization is over. That would mean that for Verlander the Tigers have a catcher who is still recovering from Tommy John, A pitcher who, in 5 seasons, has thrown 52 innings and has an ERA north of 7.70 and this year walked 29 hitters in 25 1/3 innings and an outfielder, who has hit .236 in AAA and .201 in limited time in the majors in a situation where he could have been given every opportunity to stick.................You know, this team needs to re-hire Al Avila, so they can fire him again.

For people who love it when someone "tells it like it is" they sure are snowflakes when their fee fees get hurt.

I think we all knew that once Joe crossed this Rubicon, it was going to be an inflection point for the red hats: either they see it as a call to arms and coordinate attacks, or they just lip off like they're going to and then get their bluff called. Personally, I think the truth is in the middle: I doubt we will see full-scale militia attacks on gatherings in cities, college campuses, music festivals, tech companies, etc., in which they slaughter hundreds or thousands of people at a time. But I bet we do see a rise in lone wolf attacks in which dozens are murdered in an attempt to defend Trump's besmirched honor. We may even see two- or three-person coordinated attacks. Point is, if the choice is ignore Trump and let him do whatever he wants in the hopes he merely gets thwarted at the ballot box in a free and fair election at the risk that they just steal elections and destroy democracy completely in a bid for one-party control, which that might happen; or mobilize an effort to both discredit him and hold him accountable for his crimes at the risk of murderous uprisings that might not happen after all, I think we have to choose the latter and hope for the best. Preserving democracy is worth that risk.

Pretty unsurprising reaction. But again, the party is nominating and running many candidates that are, at best, unclear as to whether they would respect the popular outcome of elections. Michigan, PA, Arizona all have slates of these candidates. I have little problem with calling that out at all. What I took from last night is that it's time to stop walking on eggshells about it and just be honest that this is what is happening. The cries of politics are inevitable, but even then, how do you avoid politics when anti-democratic ideology overtakes much of one of the two parties? It's inherently political at this point, for better or worse.

Well, to me its 50/50 that we survive Trump and his MAGA scum. If we go down, Biden's going down fighting. Good for him.

Moving great pitchers almost never works to a team's benefit. The Tigers dismantling of the Verlander/Scherzer duo will go down in history with the idiocy of the 70's Mets letting Seaver, Koosman, Ryan all get away.

this sums it up nicely for the pearl clutchers; it's Biden's duty to confront Trump and his fascist horde

Saw a meme, that I'll just causally quote for language: "MAGA: F Joe Biden" "BIden: F you too" "MAGA: Whattt?????" Snowflakes. They're Butch in A Christmas Story who finally gets his ass whopped and cries.

Here's Liz Cheney calling Democrats baby killers. She goes on to say Democrats are turning maternity wars into killing fields. She suggests Democrats are pure evil. She even falsely implicates specific Democrats, but do tell more about Biden's speech calling fascists fascists.

Here's Liz Cheney calling Democrats socialist racist who are destroying America. The same Liz Cheney who defended Trump telling the squad to go back to where they came from by calling them socialists racist. The same Liz Cheney that Democrats are suppose to be thankful for.

If that's what you think I said, then that's on you. All I said was, if you felt personally attacked by the speech last night, then you are probably a hard core MAGA already. I didn't say you had to like it or agree with it. If you did feel personally offended by the speech, well then I'm sorry that you are a MAGA that should fuck right off.

Because Houston's analytics department only teaches trash can banging.

Well there it is. Like the speech or else I am a trump lover who wishes he was there on Jan 6th to participate. There cant be any other reason to dislike that speech last night! You guys have become them and don't even know it.

If your opinion is that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen and don't think J6 was a big deal, then yes, please, fuck right off.

I agree. Fuck those people who are of the opinion that our election should be overturned.

Why didn’t they fix him like the Braves did with grossman ?

It helps when Republicans run economies into the ground and make golden opportunities to create new jobs.

Look how happy she is to see you!!! ❤️😂

WELL THEY ARE EMPTY SO THAT MEANS NOTHING WAS THERE

Buddha is correct. However, I understand that today's MLB bullpen usage is too much paint by numbers at times. Guys need to know their roles, which, OK, how about go stand on that dirt pile, and get the guy with the hitting twig out? Seems like a pretty simple role. What gets me is a RP gets brought in, dusts 3 batters on 10 pitches or less, and then another RP comes in the next inning because we have to have 7th inning RPs and 8th inning RPs and 9th inning RPs. Or the best RP, the closer for most teams, won't be used in the 8th inning vs the 2nd, 3rd, 4th lineup hitters because that pitcher's role is the 9th inning. Why wouldn't you match up strength vs strength? You might not get out of the 8th with a lead to use the best RP in the 9th. But unfortunately RPs are trained to be this for the most part. Come in, have one inning of all out effort, and call it a night. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like its become more about throwing hard than pitching.

MAGA people are gone and lost in the Trump vortex of lies, conspiracies, and hatred of their fellow Americans. There are recent articles that they can be moved off Trump, but from personal experience, I can say it is exhausting to move them an inch away from Dear Leader. To me there are some "reachable" groups for Joe 1. Progressives. Yeah, I'm not giving you what you want to the DEGREE you want, but please vote for us over the people who will not just give you zero, but take away more. 2. Normal Dems. You gotta vote. Gotta turn out. Need to vote. 3. Disgusted/exhausted GOPers. Do the right thing, vote for us. 4. Disgusted/exhausted independents. Do the right thing, vote for us. 5. "Both sides are the same" idiots who vote. They are not the same, and even if you cannot see it for some reason, I am giving you the reason to vote for us. Not including non-voters. Huge number of people never vote. Sleepy Joe is never going to motivate them, and I doubt that even Dark Brandon can motivate them. (Now I see this was stated earlier and better)

One of my top ten sports moments ever. This is another:

No, she went into it looking like a 90 year old college football talking head.

To be fair she went into it looking like a lunatic. GIGO.

72-58 is a pretty good year for the royals!

its not like youre trading relievers to get a superstar. you would have dealt them for a guy who might be a reliever in 3 years. maybe. and avila was doing the dealing, and that hasnt turned out to be too fruitful. so why trade them?

What I think is being lost here in some of the interpretations of this speech is that the hardcore MAGA crowd (which, btw, isn't half the country when you look at the surveys, more like 30-35%) isn't really the intended audience. It's intended for the other 65-70% who, despite maybe having policy differences (perhaps even massive ones) don't like the politics that the MAGA crowd advances and wants to move on from it. This is a big reason why it isn't "Deplorables" imo... Biden did go to great lengths to distinguish who exactly he was talking to and how it didn't include mainstream Rs. My biggest problem with it was that he transitioned some into stumping in the second half and talking about political accomplishments. Would have preferred he left that out to focus on the broader topic.

On the one hand you can argue the conventional wisdom that you aren't going to win any votes calling voters bad names - but OTOH, there are going to be some people for whom being labeled 'proto-facists' by the President of the United States, may bring them up short enough to maybe give a second thought to what they doing - people for whom the office still demands a certain attention even if they are basically in political opposition. Or maybe not. But I think the idea that there is some kind of honey that is sweet enough to move the hardcore is probably a pipe dream, so all you can hope for is strategies that work at the margins. In the Washington post today - Micheal Gerson, onetime Bush operative and 'old school' conservative Christian, wrote an fairly incredible piece (in terms of being far longer and deeper than any typical opinion piece) which was in part political analysis, in part religious history lesson, but much more an impassioned religious sermon imploring - in fact challenging - anyone who calls themselves Christian to re-examine how anything they claim as 'Christian' faith can be squared with today's Trump Republican party. Can't say I have ever seen anything quite like that in my years of watching US politics and media. (It hit a nerve somewhere, I've never seen a Post column pull >6500 comments in less than 24hrs!)

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15 years ago today.

this is amazing

At the end of the day, unless things fall completely off a cliff and Dan Campbell puts himself in Hue Jackson territory by going 1-16, I don't care as much about wins this year as I do clear and obvious competency, growth, and improvement. I'm not firing Campbell short of him going full Hue Jackson and I'm also not expecting Campbell to make the playoffs or achieve X number of wins. While I think they are a 7-8 win team, I'll be happy if things look like they are moving in the right direction in a big way, regardless of the win total at the end of the day. I want to see this coaching staff look competent and clearly show that they know what they are doing. Coach and manage the game right and put your players to be in the right spot to succeed. Coaches should never be the reason a team loses the game. I want to see growth and improvement from our young players, rookies, 2nd, and 3rd year players. I want guys to take big steps forward from last year to this and look markedly better.

Insane levels of grit like you have never seen.

How do you do that? Walk up to the check in counter with your gas can and ask them to fill it for you? lol

the board needs more guys like 84. all the rest of us just bitch about how much the tigers suck.